RETELL (retold)
Dictionary entry overview: What does retell mean?
• RETELL (verb)
The verb RETELL has 3 senses:
1. render verbally,
2. make into fiction
3. to say, state, or perform again
Familiarity information: RETELL used as a verb is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• RETELL (verb)
Meaning:
Render verbally,
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Synonyms:
retell; recite
Context examples:
recite a poem / retell a story
Hypernyms (to "retell" is one way to...):
re-create (create anew)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Make into fiction
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Synonyms:
fictionalise; fictionalize; retell
Context example:
The writer fictionalized the lives of his parents in his latest novel
Hypernyms (to "retell" is one way to...):
re-create (create anew)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
To say, state, or perform again
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
ingeminate; iterate; reiterate; repeat; restate; retell
Context example:
She kept reiterating her request
Hypernyms (to "retell" is one way to...):
tell (let something be known)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "retell"):
perseverate (psychology: repeat a response after the cessation of the original stimulus)
ditto (repeat an action or statement)
dwell; harp (come back to)
interpret; render; translate (restate (words) from one language into another language)
paraphrase; rephrase; reword (express the same message in different words)
resume; sum up; summarise; summarize (give a summary (of))
cite; quote (repeat a passage from)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Sentence example:
They won't retell the story
